Wednesday 5 December 2018 - By Professor Sir Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Professor Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia

Climate change is projected to affect health through a myriad of different pathways. From the direct effect of heat and exposure to other extreme events, including floods and droughts, to effects on natural systems such as on vector-borne or water-borne diseases and undernutrition. Socially-mediated effects, such as migration and conflict are also estimated to have an impact…but what about poverty?

Tuesday 27 November 2018 - By Professor Nicholas Jewell, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Professor Michael Spagat, University of London, and Britta Jewell, University of California

In twotweets, he wrote: “They [the Puerto Rico government] hired GWU Research to tell them how many people had died in Puerto Rico (how would they not know this?). This method was never done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many people were killed.” Trump’s objection seems to be that there is no list of 2975 people killed directly and violently by Hurricane Maria. But that is not what the GWU researchers set out to provide.

Thursday 8 November 2018 - By Professor Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The letter was prompted by the news that at least 17 speakers and delegates from low-and middle-income countries in Africa and Asia have been denied visas to enter the United Kingdom to attend the 2nd Women Leaders in Global Health Conference, being held at LSHTM over 8 and 9 November.